NOW THAT wouldn't be good for ANYONE, the patients who have seen those doctors in those practices for 1 or 2 or 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 or more years. It is another layer of government intrusion that actually does not do more for patient care, it actually builds more barriers and costs all of us more (not just physician profits.....) in insurance and health care costs as well as driving physicians already dwindling incomes down. And it is worse in Primary care than anywhere else. FP, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics (these are NOT what I would call High INcome businesses (they have tremendous costs associated) compared to specialties...and yes MDs do make more than the general public and we'll not get into that discussion of cost of school, delayed income production...etc...etc...). Just imagine how it will affect Psychiatry! Now that is going to be a REAL disaster!
In a message dated 1/13/02 6:32:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought about all your comments here and yet I still can not think what is wrong about having the practices you have mentioned die away, quickly. >>
